U.S. officials are closely watching the scandal in China engulfing onetime rising star Bo Xilai as a key test of the Communist Party leadership’s ability to maintain credibility with the Chinese public, especially the political and economic elites. via U.S.…
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China’s Leadership Had ‘Knives Out’ for Bo Xilai
ORVILLE SCHELL, director, Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations: “Well, I think, quite apart from any charges of corruption which may be proven against him, I think his real affront was that he was incredibly flamboyant. And rather than just…
China Rising, a public discussion with James Fallows and Orville Schell
Monday, April 9, 2012 5:30pm until 7:00pm UNC FedEx Global Education Center, Mandela Auditorium NPR/Atlantic Correspondent James Fallows and Asia Society Director Orville Schell will discuss China’s economic boom and its impact on the global economy, US foreign policy, human rights and…
Fang Lizhi, Who Inspired Chinese Dissidents, Dies
“Democracy is built from the bottom up,” he told students at Shanghai’s Tongji University in November 1986, according to an account by longtime China watcher Orville Schell. “Although we seldom dare utter the words ‘human rights,’ actually human rights are…
Fang Lizhi: China’s Andrei Sakharov The Atlantic
WHEN I returned to Beijing in the fall of 1986, after an absence of six months, it was hard not to feel disoriented by the sudden change in political climate. During the previous spring and summer, political and intellectual life…
Does China Do Capitalism Better Than America?
Is China capable of outdoing the United States at its own game? Can a country that lacks many of the basic ownership and individual rights expected of free enterprise create a successful capitalist society? A group of experts, who have…
Is The Economy Of China More Free And Capitalist Than That Of US?
It is beyond obvious that the United States does not have a free market and that its economy is not capitalist. Whether “China Does Capitalism Better than America” was debated by Ian Bremmer, Minxin Pei, Orville Schell,a and Peter Schiff…
Orville Schell: The US Could Learn from China’s Politics
Orville Schell: The US Could Learn from China’s Politics. Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates – NYU Skirball Center. via Orville Schell: The US Could Learn from China’s Politics – Video Dailymotion.
Intelligence Squared U.S. Audience Does Not Agree That “China Does Capitalism Better than America”
ORVILLE SCHELL: “Who would have thought five or 10 years ago, that we would be sitting here tonight even having this debate, that there would be any kind of equilibrium even to discuss between these two great economic systems. No…
At N.Y.U., A Debate on Whether China is ‘Better at Capitalism’ Than The U.S. That Never Quite Escapes The Absurdity of the Premise
Schell said he recently went to meet Chinese governors with California governor Jerry Brown. “Every one of those governors and party secretaries came with ten guys with black suits, you know, from trade, from energy, from manufacturing,” Schell said. “Brown…